Felix miller



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FELIX MILLER, OF NEW' YORK, N. Y.

FASTENING- FOR CARPETS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 13,094, dated June 19, 1855.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, FELIX MILLER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Securing Carpets Down Upon Floors; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full description of the same.

The nature of my invention consists in the method of forming the hook, and attaching or combining it with the carpet, so that. it may be attached or combined with the edge of the carpet at any point required, for hooking into the fixed eyelet secured to the iioor; and thereby afford greater facililies in taking up and laying down carpets, as well as preventing the tear consequent upon taking up tacked down carpets. But to describe my invention more particularly I will refer to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this schedule, the same letters of reference wherever they occur referring to like parts.

Figure 1, is a perspective representation of a section of ioor, and carpet showing the claws of the hooks through the upper side of the carpet. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the floor showing the eyelets secured to it. Fig. 3, is a lower side view of the carpet showing the hooks attached thereto. Fig. 4, is a detached view of the hook. Fig. 5, is a detached View of the eyelet.

Letter A, is a representation of the floor and surface. On the floor is fastened by nails or screws a number of eyelets B. These eyelets are made of brass or other suitable metal for such purposes.

Letter C, is a representation of the carpet,

and D, a hook attached thereto for engaging into the eyelet to hold the carpet down upon the floor. This hook is made of brass or other suitable metal. For the purpose of attaching it to the carpet, it has several sharp claw teeth d, d, 0Z,which are inserted throu h the carpet at the point desired, and bent own at the instant of engaging the hook into the eyelet on the oor, and thereby secure the carpet to the floor vwith less trouble, and more security than could be done by tacking as they are liable to tear out, or through the carpet if requiring stretching to get it down.

Another advantage in the use of my invention in securing carpets down upon floors by hooks is that the carpets may be taken up with greater ease and less liability of tearing out the binding, than possibly can be done where put down by nails, and as these claw hooks can be made at a very small price per hundred, their economy and convenience of use must make them very popular and desirable among housekeepers.

The mode of applying my invention is, first, I secure the eyelet to the floor, second, I engage the hook into the eyelet, leaving the claws, in an upright position. The carpet is then taken by the selvage and stretched over the points of the claws, and down upon them, and as they appear through the carpet, pressing the points down so as to hold the carpet to its place. When once secured to the carpet they will answer for all time, unless the carpet is changed to another room and then the claws may be opened and the hooks transferred to any point again desired.

I-Iaving now described my invention and mode of using the same, I will state what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat-ent of' the United States.

What I claim is- The method of laying and securing carpets down upon floors, by means, and use of the claw hook substantially as hereinbefore described, operating and combining with the carpet and eyelet on the floor substantially in manner and for the purposes set forth.

FELIX MILLER.

Witnesses:

CHARLES L. BARRITT, J. T. Fos'rnn. 

